· Private foundation
The Fernandez Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $234k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FGCU | $15,000 |
| CRISTO EL REY SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH | $12,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $11,600 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $10,000 |
| PICKENS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| WESTGATE CHURCH | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $337k · revenue +56%
SMILE TRAIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +19%- HFHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CSCHARLES SCHWAB FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +29%
- LBLEE BUILDERS CAREone grant, 2024 · $10k
- GLGLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To foster philanthropy across charlotte county to enhance our community for generations.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
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Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.
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How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES SCHWAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds Community Housing and Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMARY SCHOOL LAB ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 100 WOMEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc · Grampy's Charities James Jonatha William Castle Ttees · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fernandez Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fernandez Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
- Love a Child Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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